PHILADELPHIA — It started innocently enough. Asked how playing with point guard Ish Smith has benefited him after Monday's 113-111 overtime loss to the Lakers, Nerlens Noel replied, "I love that kid. He finds me whenever I'm open. Honestly, he's the first true point guard I've ever really played with. Ish is my favorite." Oh, really? So Smith, a journeyman on his eighth team in five years, is the "first true point guard" even though Noel spent the first four months of the season with former AAU teammate/2013-14 NBA Rookie of the Year Michael Carter-Williams? Noel repeated the line to a pair of reporters a few minutes later. Soon...

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Michael Jordan goes to the basket in the third quarter as Utah Jazz's Howard Eisley looks on during Game 2 of the NBA Finals in Salt Lake City, in this June 5, 1998 photo. Dominance, determination and unmatched skill earned Jordan the selection as the top basketball player of the century by a...

Liberty High School grad Darrun Hilliard helped Villanova earn a high seed and make a run, albeit short-lived, in the NCAA men's basketball tournament this month, adding to a legacy of players with local roots bringing national recognition to Lehigh...

PHILADELPHIA — The line between winning and losing can sometimes be blurred.
That's why the 76ers' 113-111 overtime loss to the Lakers on Monday night at the Wells Fargo Center was really a victory of sorts.
The Sixers (18-57) tightened their grip on...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The wife of Donald Sterling sought revenge Friday against a woman whose recording cost her husband ownership of the Los Angeles Clippers by playing audio that showed the billionaire showered her with millions of dollars in gifts.
In...

They have the look of such favorites that Las Vegas likes them twice this week, once while on a back-to-back and the other time on the road.
Weren't these Philadelphia 76ers supposed to be tanking?
The team that was widely expected to be the NBA's...

To no one's surprise, Cole Hamels has been named the Phillies Opening Day starter. But not many expected Odubel Herrera, a Rule 5 pick from Texas will be the starting center fielder. The Phillies travel to Bradenton this afternoon.… Nick Feirro reports...

CLEVELAND (AP) — The Cleveland Cavaliers won't get style points for Sunday's 87-86 win over the Philadelphia 76ers.
And that's just fine with LeBron James.
Moving 21/2 games ahead of Chicago for second place in the Eastern Conference was all that...

A weekly look back at sports in the Lehigh Valley, in anniversaries of multiples of five years.
March 30
2000—John Walson Jr., the president of Service Electric Cable Television, purchases majority ownership in the Pennsylvania ValleyDawgs, the area's...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The woman whose recording of Donald Sterling led to the sale of the Los Angeles Clippers provided opposing views of the billionaire on Friday, describing him as a con artist, cheat and bigot who was also a sweet and loving father...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Days after Donald Sterling was banned for life from the NBA and in jeopardy of losing his Los Angeles Clippers, he was trying to ensure that the woman who led to his downfall had a house of her own.
In a recording played Thursday in...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The wife of former Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling says she sued a woman she believed was his mistress because she defrauded and abused him.Shelly Sterling told a Los Angeles judge on Wednesday that she was seeking property...

The Parkland High School of today is very different from Brant Weidner's Parkland.
Back in the late 1970s, the Trojans had some success in various sports, but were generally not the Goliath among local scholastic athletic programs that often sparks...

Joey Ptasinski didn't enjoy the 200-mile trip to American last month.The Lafayette shooting guard didn't like missing six of the nine 3-pointers he took during that game and hates losing. But what made the trek to Washington, D.C. unfavorable was that...

The general manager of Allentown's PPL Center has been chosen by an entertainment industry magazine among recipients of an award that honors influential leaders age 35 or younger.
Gunnar Fox is among recipients of Venues Today...

The late, great Frank Sinatra once had a hit song called "It was a very good year," and for a basketball fan living in Allentown 70 years ago in 1945 that is exactly what it was — a very good year.
For the basketball season of 1944-45 one could...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jeremy Lin scored a season-high 29 points, and the Los Angeles Lakers beat the Philadelphia 76ers 101-87 on Sunday night in the first meeting of the season between two of the NBA's worst teams.
Thomas Robinson had 14 points off the...

PHILADELPHIA — Rookie center Joel Embiid experienced a “minor setback” during the rehab of the stress fracture in his right foot, according to an NBA source.
Some folks saw Embiid in public Sunday wearing a protective boot, which he apparently...

Gone is last season's NBA Rookie of the Year, 23-year-old Michael Carter-Williams.Saying good-bye this week is LeSean McCoy, the Eagles' all-time leading rusher at age 26.Phillies and Flyers fans can rest easy because there is no one as young, talented...

PHILADELPHIA — The 76ers have lost 14 in a row on the road, but they're having some success at home.
Wednesday night's 94-83 victory over the Pistons was their third in their last five games at Wells Fargo Center.
Sixers coach Brett Brown changed up his...